CVE-2024-38059
Published: 09 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38059 is a high-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 21H2. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 7.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-38059 is a Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in the Windows kernel-mode driver responsible for the graphical subsystem. It is tracked under CWE-416 (use-after-free) and received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 reflecting local attack vector, low complexity, and low-privileged access requirements that nonetheless result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A local attacker who already possesses a low-privileged account on an affected Windows system can exploit the flaw without user interaction to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level, thereby obtaining full control of the host.
Microsoft’s Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38059 supplies the official patch details and remediation guidance. The associated EPSS score has remained modest, with a current value of 0.0896 and a peak of 0.0967.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-37755
Vulnerability details
Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.